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QOTD: What do you think about the man in pic related? Do you like his movies?
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James Flores
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Nolan Barnes
Goon is brilliant
Colton Wright
wheres rooney
Charles Clark
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Luis Long
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Camden Lee
You don't really think you'll win, do you?
Samuel Wright
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Daniel Gray
Logan Hill
I gotchu.
Ethan Walker
fucking racist movie
Brody Sanchez
name a movie that you unironically rated 5 stars
Xavier Torres
The Room.
Grayson Collins
Academy Awards, USA 1981
Won Oscar
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Sissy Spacek
Sebastian Brown
Recently, The Celebration.
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Adrian Cruz
Robert Roberts
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Ian Bennett
where do I start with Pynchon
Ryan Gray
Isn't Marina Abramovic that satanic spirit cooker for the Clinton Fountain?
David Flores
My favorite is Mason & Dixon, and I think it's one of his more accessible/straightforward works. It's certainly long, but if you aren't daunted by length it's a really easy read. He's also at his most sentimental in that one.
GR is revered as the best, though I liked it less than MD. Certainly more complicated and perhaps more historically pertinent.
TCoL49 is where most people start. I wrote a lot about it in college, and Bloom thinks it's one of the best novellas ever written. Pynchon himself has denounced it a little, though I liked it much more than the supposed finished product (Inherent Vice, which I thought was garbage).
V. was my first Pynchon and, frankly, I'd recommend you start there. Good entry point into his paranoid, 60's counter-culture obsession; While challenging, it's easily navigable as long as you keep track of the timelines. Probably my second favorite of his.
The rest are fine, they don't stand out as particularly great, though always enjoyable.
Hudson Ortiz
Any super famous LB users that you like?
Grayson Lee
Lucy
Parker Harris
>mason & Dixon
>most accessible
In what sense? Certainly not in terms of prose which is the biggest hurdle for 99% of readers. And what’s with your gay reddit spacing and reading map blog? No need to mystify it, pleb.
Just read crying lot and go from there.
Gavin Taylor
thanks senpai, I was eyeing some books at a bookstore and gravity’s rainbow was there. Since I always see it memed here I thought I might read it but I didn’t know if I should start with something more accessible. I’ll give V. a try
Bentley Green
Born Today, Dec 29, in 1937, Barbara Steele - And now, my dear Nicholas, I have you exactly as I want you - helpless. -The Pit and the Pendulum
Christopher Cruz
I just spaced for the individual books because I liked it organized. It's more accessible in the sense that the narrative is straightforward and you aren't dealing with a matrix of timelines. No idea what you're on about with 'prose' being difficult and how that's a hurdle for 99% of readers (seems a bit of nonsense), but alright.
I don't really want to argue about which Pynchon made you feel superior, let's give the guy his recs and move on.
Carson Watson
should i watch eraserhead i don't want to watch a movie and feel depressed after it
Christian Parker
Eraserhead isnt depressing
Luis Peterson
It's a comedy
Dominic Gray
>Eraserhead isn't depressing
Jace Torres
>tfw watched list is too pleb to post here
Anyone got a good list of kino?
Hudson Garcia
If you get depressed by moving pictures, you're an emotionally stunted manchild.
Adrian Stewart
Battle of the Sexes
La La Land
Aloha
Irrational Man
The Amazing Spider Man
Magic in the Moonlight
Birdman
The Croods
Gangster Squad
Crazy Stupid Love
The Help
Easy A
Zombieland
The Rocker
The House Bunny
Superbad
Brandon Ward
>doesn't emotionally engage with external stimuli
>calls others stunted
Samuel Walker
Watch this. It will change your life
Cooper Phillips
no
Christopher Hughes
Easily the most disappointing new film I saw this year was BLADE RUNNER 2049. Waaaaay too long, with the fatal conceptual error that the original film needed closure and storyline resolution.
Alexander Perez
I loved the celebration
Hunter Torres
Hudson Wood
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Alexander Ross
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Kayden Wright
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Camden Murphy
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Owen Price
Now do one for Battle of the Sexes
Carter Scott
Don't tell me, tell Frank.
Robert Roberts
Happy 79th Birthday Jon Voight! Born Dec 29, in 1938... Uh, well, sir, I ain't a f'real cowboy. -as Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy
Samuel Williams
Born Today, Dec 29, in 1911 (or 1908?), Claire Dodd - Roberta, Footlight Parade, The Case of the Curious Bride, In the Navy, The Case of the Velvet Claws...
Evan Roberts
sounds like kino
Juan Smith
Villeneuve... the Kubrick of our generation.
Jayden Diaz
I need the auteur theory because people are still insisting that every new great director is "the next Kubrick". Funny thing about the auteur theory is that it isn't even a theory. It's a way of categorizing the canon by looking at the artists. What the auteurists noticed was that you could easily make a coherent canon based on directors rather than the populism of specific films. Which was great because you could now celebrate cinema as truly being artistic to the fullest extent. Able to capture singular worldviews. So any time someone says X director is "the next Kubrick" they are simultaneously devaluing cinema, Kubrick, and X director.
The "theory" part of auteur theory has nothing to do with recognizing that films usually have a singular author. That's just a fact. What the theory part refers to is a way of classifying the cinematic canon by grouping films by their primary author and making cinema history way more recordable and easier to study.